The T Boon Pickens Plan is a bridge to the future — a blueprint to reduce foreign oil dependence by harnessing domestic energy alternatives, and buy the USA time to develop even greater new technologies.
Local is good is a principal which is at the core of the Pickens Power Plan – e.g. wind where it’s windy, solar where there is sun.
Pickens laments:
We currently use natural gas to produce 22% of our electricity. Harnessing the power of wind to generate electricity will give us the flexibility to shift natural gas away from electricity generation and put it to use as a transportation fuel — reducing our dependence on foreign oil by more than one-third.
Pickens is being honest and talking his own book – he is a Natural Gas Investor.
Of interest to us is that the Pickens Plan is also a plan for Australia.
We are also in love with our existing cars, so maybe promoting the use of our abundant methane (CH4, natural gas) as fuel for our existing petrol guzzlers would now be in demand if it was made available to us.
For some discussion on this subject, visit http://news.rosettamoon.com.
Stoner owns shares in ASX:MEL Metgasco.
Thanks for the article and the link,
I am near finished publishing on Rosettamoon on account my goal is 50 articles toward the energy debate.
I wrote to Pickens as he is on the money and the environment with his plan and I have near completed an Integrated Transport Plan(ITP) to present to the Energy Minister here, Martin Ferguson, who is as I have said between other jibes, making real reforms.
I question arrangements made to sell our LNG abroad and I question the ongoing policy of supporting this industry as its a disaster in terms of environmental risk and sound energy management.
Pondering the debates and the more recent focus on ‘emmissions trading’ I wish to add a new level to the ITP (and yes, apparently this plan was presented and rejected in the British teleseries Yes Minister…but thats history).
So, I am hoping that the debate can take a quantum leap into the future and we can learn from the sacred geometry of nature, and start behaving as rational humans, instead of squandering pressure energy as if there is no tommorrow…there is a tommorrow, but if people want to take part in it they need to elevate themselves above the ‘inconvenient truths’ presented to us by the pre-invested media that seems to lack vision and integrity when it comes to issues of community, governance and the common sense management of energy.
Will check out your declaration of interest…I have to declare I have a interest as well…the future well being of the planet and all its inhabitants and the reformation of our economies under a new paradigm which is a little bit more ‘economical’ with the truth and certainly more economical with the use of energy, escaping the meaningless paradigm of ‘economic growth’ which has led us to this critical junction in human history.
Nigel